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The new musical Here We Are, which is the final show from legendary composer Stephen Sondheim, has officially debuted off-Broadway.

A star-studded crowd stepped out to attend the performance on Sunday night (October 22) at The Shed’s Griffin Theatre in New York City.

Among the stars pictured in the gallery are Lee Pace, John Benjamin Hickey, Katie Holmes, Jim Parsons, Sara Bareilles, Phillipa Soo, Sarah Paulson, Nathan Lane, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Paul Rudd, Andy Cohen, Chris Rock, Jane Krakowski, Annaleigh Ashford, Josh Groban, Zachary Quinto, and Josh Gad.

Josh and Annaleigh are currently starring in the revival of Sondheim‘s Sweeney Todd while Sara and Phillipa recently led the revival of Sondheim‘s Into the Woods.

Cast members photographed at the opening night party included David Hyde Pierce, Steven Pasquale, Rachel Bay Jones, Bobby Cannavale, and Micaela Diamond.

The New York Times says that the show “is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.”

Here We Are is running at The Shed through January 21.

Six of Broadway’s biggest stars came together to pay tribute to the late great Stephen Sondheim during a tribute concert at the Hollywood Bowl!

Sutton Foster, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Patti LuPone, Skylar Astin, Sierra Boggess, and Norm Lewis performed the composer’s greatest hits and some deep cuts during Everybody Rise! A Sondheim Celebration on Sunday night (July 30) in Los Angeles.

The show was packed with 24 of Sondheim‘s best songs, including a song that was even cut from one of his musicals. The concert program was curated by Robert Longbottom and Kevin Stites and conducted by Stites.

The shows represented during the concert included Into the Woods, Company, Sunday in the Park With George, A Little Night Music, Sweeney Todd, Follies, Merrily We Roll Along, Anyone Can Whistle, Saturday Night, and Assassins.

Patti stole the show with her renditions of “Being Alive” and “The Ladies Who Lunch,” both from the show Company. She won a Tony Award last year for her performance as Joanne.

The Sunday evening performance fittingly ended with all six stars coming together for a powerful rendition of “Sunday” from Sunday in the Park with George.

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Broadway fans were both thrilled and confused after a few mysterious social media accounts launched this week, claiming that Stephen Sondheim‘s Square One was coming to Broadway – but it was all a hoax.

On Wednesday (December 14), a series of social media accounts, claiming to be for the musical that Sondheim was working on at the time of his death, claimed there was an announcement coming regarding a Broadway run.

The alleged production then shared an announcement that Bernadette Peters and Nathan Lane would star in a Broadway production of his final work.

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Bernadette Peters is giving an very emotional performance at the 2022 Tony Awards.

The 74-year-old two-time Tony Award winner took to the stage during the awards show to deliver a heartfelt tribute to the late Stephen Sondheim on Sunday night (June 12) at Radio City Music Hall in New York City.

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The late composer Stephen Sondheim was honored with an incredible tribute at the 2022 Grammy Awards.

Some of Broadway’s best stars and a hot rising star performed a medley of Sondheim songs during the In Memoriam segment on Sunday (April 3) at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.

Tony Award winners Cynthia Erivo, Ben Platt, and Leslie Odom Jr. were joined by West Side Story actress Rachel Zegler to sing “Not a Day Goes By” from Merrily We Roll Along, “Send in the Clowns” from A Little Night Music, and “Somewhere” from WSS.

The four entertainers performed while the In Memoriam roll played behind them, ending with the image of Sondheim.

FYI: Rachel is wearing a Zuhair Murad dress. Leslie is wearing Michael Kors Collection. Cynthia is wearing Louis Vuitton.

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The 2022 Grammys will be paying tribute to the late Stephen Sondheim.

On Wednesday (March 23), it was reported that Rachel Zegler, Ben Platt, Cynthia Erivo, and Leslie Odom Jr. will be honoring the late Broadway composer with a performance during the upcoming awards show.

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Many of Broadway’s biggest stars gathered in Times Square on Sunday (November 28) to honor the life and legacy of late composer Stephen Sondheim, two days after his death.

Lin-Manuel Miranda, Sara Bareilles and boyfriend Joe Tippett, Josh Groban, Laura Benanti, Brian Stokes Mitchell, and many more performers gathered on the iconic red steps in Duffy Square to perform the song “Sunday” from the Sondheim musical Sunday in the Park with George.

The event was produced by Erich Bergen, who just wrapped his third stint in the Broadway musical Waitress, and conducted by Michael J. Moritz.

More participants included Raul Esparaza, Celia Keenan-Bolger, Wilson Cruz, Brandon Uranowitz, Judy Kuhn, Hadestown stars Reeve Carney and Eva Noblezada, Jagged Little Pill stars Lauren Patten, Kathryn Gallagher, Morgan Dudley, and Heidi Blickenstaff, Six‘s Abby Mueller, Gossip Girl‘s Adam Chanler-Berat and Tavi Gevinson (who are both currently in the Assassins revival Off-Broadway), and Diana‘s Roe Hartrampf and Erin Davie.

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